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A Chubby Cherub-esque platformer based on a short-lived Japanese animation by the creator of Doraemon.
The all-time arcade classic goes portable in a decent enough rendition that leaves room for improvement.
Black-and-white visuals and listless porting work severely undermine this port of a color-based NES puzzler.
Konami’s cute-em-up series suffered a few compromises en route to Game Boy, but still managed to offer a good time.
Another mediocre Game Boy release based on an anime. It’s a shame; Patlabor was great, and deserved a much nicer interactive adaptation.
Is it “Power Mission” or “Power Missiøn”? This forgotten release provided a pretty decent portable war gaming experience. It would be eclipsed by better-known games within a matter of months.
Oh. It’s another puzzle game. This version is distinct from the NES adaptation, and also from the soft-porn arcade versions.
Atari’s diagonal fling-em-up makes the leap from arcades to the Game Boy with rather less-than-impressive results.
An interesting counterpoint to the remarkably similar Blodia from a few months prior. Where that game featured structured puzzles, Pipe Dream features a Tetris-like randomness… and an ease of…
Nintendo’s Popeye was a memorable but slightly subpar action game from the golden days of the arcade. Despite its deficiencies, it blew away this sad take on the license…
A head-to-head competitive dodgeball game featuring cute animals, because why not? This is a two-player port of a single-player arcade game, and also the Penguin-kun Wars series’ sole journey…
A real rarity: A Sega game on Game Boy. Pony Canyon converted a computer port of an old Sega arcade game to Game Boy. Sneaky! A fundamentally good game…
Game Boy gets a port of Taito’s arcade game Plotting… under a different title for some reason. Popular in Japan and Europe, Flipull only ever came to the…
Pachinko tutorial time I don’t know how much you know about pachinko, but I’m… what’s the furthest thing from an expert? I’m one of those. But let’s pretend….
In the early days of the Game Boy, one of the biggest challenges facing developers was the question of how ambitious to make their games. Portable gaming, new…